Post by Admin on Oct 15, 2014 21:11:29 GMT
The Family and Community Working Group is continuing to refine its work and has provided a draft of the key outcomes it will be trying to address as a part of Provo Accelerated. Once again, comments are welcome and encouraged.
Educate Provo Families About Internet Safety
Provide World-Class Technology Resources For Internet Safety
Create A Best Of Breed Provo Community Web Portal To Better Connect Families And Neighborhoods
Educate Provo Families About Internet Safety
- Create resources for families to have meaningful conversations about and to develop their own strategy for Internet safety at home that involves the entire family at all ages and stages
- Discussion guides
- Videos, webinars, live seminars
- Consuming media in a healthy, sustainable way
- Access to and community reviews of existing and new filtering/parental control programs
- Develop resources to help non-tech savvy families implement safe Internet practices
- Have a “community Internet safety officer” that would engage residents, students and others in making Provo the world leader in family-friendly Internet resources
Provide World-Class Technology Resources For Internet Safety
- Work with Google Fiber and/or others to develop world-class server-side filtering options
- Inform the Google Fiber help desk to assist families with filtering options
- Sponsor local coders and developers hackathons and other tools to create world-class filtering/parental controls programs and services
Create A Best Of Breed Provo Community Web Portal To Better Connect Families And Neighborhoods
- Have a single, integrated and customizable community calendar incorporating civic, arts, education, faith-based, sports and entertainment events with hyperlinks to more information
- Encourage civic engagement with online community resources, forums, civic education and common interest groups
- Develop portal applications which enable more effective approaches to creating a more sustainable environment through technology resources
- Provide resources for community education such as English as a second language, digital literacy, effective civic engagement, etc.
- Create ways to better share existing video content generated in the community (such as Provo Channel 17) and to produce, upload and share newly created video content in Provo